—Entry of cause for trial. In English practice. The proceeding by a plaintiff in an action who had given notice of trial, depositing with the proper officer of the court the néss priue record, with the panel of jurors annexed, and thus bringing the issue before the court for trial—Entry on the roll. In former times, the parties to an action, pemonaly or by their counsel, used to apnear in open court and make their mutual statements tivd voce. instead of as at the present: day delivering their mutual pleadings, until they arrivéd at the issue or precise point in dispute between them. During the progress of this oral statement, a minute of the various proceedings was made on parchment by an officer of the court appointed for that purpose. The parchment then became the record; in other words, the official history of the suit. Long after the practice of oral pleading had fallen into disuse, it continued necessary to enter the proceedings in like manner upon the parchment roll, and this was called ‘‘entry on the roll,” or makin up the “issue roll.” But by a rule of H. T